Mike Conroy (footballer, born 1965)

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Mike Conroy
Personal information
Full name Michael Kevin Conroy [1]
Date of birth (1965-12-31) 31 December 1965 (age 57)
Place of birth Glasgow, Scotland
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1983–1984 Coventry City 0 (0)
1984–1987 Clydebank 114 (38)
1987–1988 St Mirren 10 (1)
1988–1991 Reading 80 (7)
1991–1993 Burnley 77 (30)
1993–1995 Preston North End 57 (22)
1995–1998 Fulham 94 (32)
1998–1999 Blackpool 14 (0)
1998–1999 → Chester City (loan) 10 (3)
1999 → Chester City (loan) 5 (0)
1999–2000 Carlton 28 (0)
2000–2001 Eastern Pride 6 (1)
Total495(134)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Michael Kevin Conroy (born 31 December 1965) is a Scottish former professional footballer. He played as a striker.

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Conroy began his career with Coventry City in 1983. Unable to break into the first team, he moved back to his native Scotland in 1984 to sign with Clydebank on a free transfer. In three years with the Bankies, he made 114 league appearances and scored 38 goals. In 1987, he joined St Mirren for ten months, scoring one goal in ten appearances for the Buddies.

He returned south of the border in 1988 to join Reading in a £50,000 deal. He spent three years at Elm Park, before moving to Burnley in 1991, where the most prolific scoring period of his career would begin. In his two years with Burnley, Conroy scored 30 goals in 77 league appearances. Conroy joined Burnley's Lancashire rivals Preston North End in 1993 for £85,000. He went on to score 22 goals in 57 appearances for North End and briefly played alongside a young David Beckham.

In 1995, he joined Fulham, and scored 32 goals in almost 100 appearances for the Craven Cottage club. After three years in London, Conroy moved back to Lancashire to join Blackpool for a £50,000 fee. He made fourteen appearances for the Seasiders but failed to find the net in the league (though he did score once against Scunthorpe United in the League Cup). [2] In December 1998 he was loaned out to Chester City, for whom he scored three goals in ten appearances. He returned to the Blues, again on loan, a month after his first period expired.

After leaving Blackpool in 1999, Conroy moved to Australia to play for Carlton. [3] [4] In 2000, he joined Eastern Pride, with whom he finished his playing career when they went out of business the following year. Conroy was senior coach at Doncaster Rovers Soccer Club in the Victorian State League Division 2. He began his coaching career as reserve-team coach at Doncaster Rovers.

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References

  1. ↑ "Mike Conroy". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "Worthington Cup 1998–1999 Season". Sky Sports. BSkyB. 11 August 1998. Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 17 February 2013.
  3. ↑ Brits make it big Down Under - BBC Sport
  4. ↑ Where are they now? Archived 15 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine - Toofif.com
  5. ↑ Hugman, Barry J., ed. (1997). The 1997–98 Official PFA Footballers Factfile. Harpenden: Queen Anne Press. p. 317. ISBN   978-1-85291-581-0.
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